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Thailand to repatriate 215 ethnic Hmong to Laos

BANGKOK, July 4 (TNA) – Thailand will repatriate 215 ethnic Hmong
minority to Laos next Thursday across the Thai-Lao Friendship bridge
border crossing across the Mekong River in the northeastern province
of Nongkhai, according to Lt-Gen. Nipat Thonglek, Chief of the Royal
Thai Army’s Border Affairs Department.

Gen. Nipat noted that some foreign diplomatic missions expressed
satisfaction that there were no human rights violations taking place
and that the members of the ethnic minority group were not being
deported against their will.

He said nine envoys from six countries — Australia, Britain, Canada,
France, the Netherlands, and the United States, as well as a
representative from the European Union — were satisfied with the
treatment of the 215 Hmong who would be sent back to Laos next week,
after the diplomats visited them Wednesday at the 28th Cavalry
Battalion in the northern province of Phetchabun. Flickr: Trouble Trap’s Photostream

According to Gen. Nipat, the trip was organised after Thailand
successfully repatriated 837 Hmong voluntarily back to Laos on June 22
Flickr: Laos welcome 837 Hmong Returnees’ Photostream and some foreign
diplomatic missions in Thailand and international organisations called
for more information about the repatriation.

He said that the foreign countries worried that the Hmong ethnic were
forced to return to the Lao PDR and the families were separated
against their will.

After the visit, the foreign mission representatives were satisfied
with Thailand’s treatment of the Hmong, and that the facilities
provided were acceptable, he said.

The latest repatriation came after ethnic Hmong living at a temporary
camp in Phetchabun burned their shelters to protest the Thai
government plan to repatriate them to Laos.

The protested was aimed to draw the attention of the United Nations
and the world community.

Many ethnic Hmong soldiers fought alongside the US forces during the
Vietnam War. After the war in Laos ended in 1975, many fled to the
jungles fearing the communist authorities would hunt them down for
having worked with the Americans, and being potentially disloyal to

the new Pathet Lao communist government.

Thailand, however, claims that many of the Hmong had violated Thai law
by entering the country illegally. (TNA)

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